Artie Traum

Woodstock musician Artie Traum, one of that community’s musical elders, will play what is shaping up to be a pretty good concert in Albany tonight, at WAMC’s Linda Norris Auditorium.

Traum will perform with fellow Woodstock musicians Tony Levin and Warren Bernhardt, among others. Levin plays bass for Peter Gabriel and Bernhardt has played with a lot of people, from Donald Fagen to Art Garfunkel to Simon and Garfunkel.

Traum’s concert comes in support of his new album, a collection of haunting, moody and finely-crafted tunes called “Thief of Time.”

Traum said his rhythm section, of Levin and drummer Gary Burke, give him “a solid backbone so there is something I can bounce off of. It’s almost like my safety net. I know that, playing with them, there is going to be a real solid foundation for everything else to be built upon. That’s where those guys come in. They bring a lot of creative ideas, musically. You listen to Tony’s bass parts, he brings this stuff and it gives you chills.”